Thread cutter and holder



(No Model.)

E. B. LOOK. THREAD CUTTER AND HOLDER.

No. 495,500. Patented Apr. 18, 1893.

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ELIZABETH B. LOOK, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

THREAD CUTTER AND HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 495,500, dated April 18, 1893. Application filed October 27,1891- Serial No. 409,947- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

. Be it known that I, ELIZABETH B. LOOK, of Boston, in the county of Snfiolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inThread Cutting and Holding Attachments for Spools, of which the following is a description sufficiently full, clear, and exact to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which said invention appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a top View of my improved attachment; Fig. 2 an end view, and Fig. 3 an edge view of the attachment removed from the spool.

My invention is a thread cutting and hold ing attachment for spools, and consists of a plate having a tang at right angles to the plane of the plate, and having thread cutting edges and thread retaining slits, the slits being formed on the peripheral edge of the plate, and inclined outwardly in a direction away from each other, and the cutting edges formed on the opposite radial edges of the plate, so that the attachment can be used upon either end of a spool, as will be readily understood.

In the drawings, 1: is a plate of sheet metal and its tang which may be of any desired either end of the spool, a slit will be presented which will extend toward that side of the spool from which the thread is drawn.

Plate '0 projects beyond the periphery of the spool and is sharpened on its opposite radial edges at y y so that the thread may be cut by drawing it against these edges.

I claim As a new article of manufacture the improved thread cuttingand holding attachment for spools herein described, the same consisting of a plate 1) having a tang w at right angles to the plane of the plate; thread-retaining slits w m formed in the peripheral edge of plate 1) and inclined outwardly in a direction away from each other, and cutting edges y y formed on the opposite radial edges of the plate 1), substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

ELIZABETH B. LOOK.

Witnesses:

C. M. SHAW, K. DURFEE. 

